Where Can I Buy the P90X?
You should buy the P90X workout system because it is an extremely well built, well-designed workout system that guarantees results. Beachbody offers a 90 day guarantee on the P90X! You will get a ripped body from this!
Most companies would go out of business if they placed these types of guarantees on their products, not Beachbody. Beachbody knows that their products are the best and they treat them accordingly.
What makes the P90X the best home workout system? Simply answered, its design makes it the best. The P90X was not “thrown” together. It was researched and designed by a team of individuals that included the well-known personal trainer Tony Horton.
First off, the muscles are grouped together and organized throughout the workout. Each muscle group is workout out at least once each week over the 90-day period. There are three strength and three conditioning workouts each week. They alternate so that you never do two strength or two conditioning workouts in a row. After each strength workout comes the Ab Ripper. The Ab Ripper is a 15 minutes ab workout that will leave your midsection, well, ripped up. It is the best ab workout that I have EVER done.
This next paragraph may be surprising to you. The second piece that makes the P90X the best workout is the detailed diet that comes with it. The P90X comes with an extremely detailed diet that tells you exactly what to eat. The goal of this P90X is to get your body’s metabolism going and to start burning up all that stored fat. The diet has you eating 5 meals a day. Each day, there are three main meals eaten at their normal times broken up by two small snacks.
The comprehensive diet also helps you determine how much you should be eating. Depending upon factors that include you age, height, weight, and activity level, the P90X also comes along with information that helps you determine how many calories you should be consuming each day to carefully and slowly lose weight.
This may sound too good to be true but I guarantee you that it isn’t. Team Beachbody thought of everything when they put together the P90X. If you are serious about working out, this home workout system is for you. After completing the 90-day P90X program your body will not look the same. You will be a much improved version of yourself.
If you are not sure about the P90X’a $119.85 price tag, I would strongly urge you to sign-up to be a Beachbody Coach. Being a coach will give you 25% off of everything Beachbody sells. Upon signing up to be a coach, the initial fee of $39.95 will be waived if you purchase a workout system at the same time. After that it is just $15 a month. I used my discount to purchase protein bars and such at a discount.
The Differences Between the P90X and Insanity Home Workout Systems
Does the P90X or Insanity home workout system best meet your needs? There are distinct differences in each of the workout systems and in this article I will be discussing and examining each of them.
We will begin with one of the more important factors: cost. The initial cost of each workout system is the same, $119.85. The P90X however has added costs that come along with it. These added costs should not be a deterrent because the P90X is designed to target different parts of your body and give you different results than the Insanity program.
The P90X is a program that is designed to improve both your cardiovascular health and your strength. There are 6 workouts a week. Three of them are strength workouts and the other three are cardiovascular workouts. When I completed the P90X I lost more than 20 lbs. of fat and put on around 7-10 lbs. of muscle.
The added costs that come along with the P90X involves purchasing stretch bands/dumbbells and a pull-up bar. Some may have dumbbells lying around their home so this cost will not be an issue for them. I didn’t have any lying around so I purchased some stretch bands from Beachbody for around $30. I can confidently say that the bands that Beachbody sells are close to, if not, the best on the market. Don’t buy the Gold’s Gym bands at Walmart because they slip out of their groves and snap when stretched to their max. The Beachbody bands NEVER snapped once on me. I have used dumbbells plenty of times before and the bands gave me just as good as a workout as the dumbbells would.
The next cost associated with the P90X is a pull-up bar. It is probably safe to say that nobody has a pull-up bar lying around their home. I purchased a pull-up bar from Beachbody for 39.95. The pull-up bar installs very easily. It actually took me more time to put it together than it did to put up in a doorway. The pull-up bar is designed to be put up and taken down in any doorway. It is extremely safe and will not damage the trim in your doorway.
Finally, each P90X workout is at least an hour long. As stated earlier, three days a week you will be doing strength workouts. After each of these workouts you will do the Ab Ripper. The Ab Ripper is 15 minutes added onto your initial workouts. Both workouts end up being just over an hour long. The remaining cardio workouts are about 50 minutes each.
If you would still like to purchase the P90X I would recommend purchasing the P90X Peak Results Package. This comes with the P90X, a pull-up bar, stretch bands, and a months supply of recovery drink. The recovery drink is taken after each workout. It taste and works great!
With the Insanity workout, what you see is what you get. There is no added cost for additional equipment. The Insanity workout system does not focus on strength training too much. I feel that most of the people that you see in the testimonials who are really ripped already had those muscles underneath their fat and just needed some help toning them up. Don’t get me wrong, your muscle mass will increase a bit with Insanity, but not as much as it would with the P90X.
The Insanity workout system is perfect for people who just want to lose a lot of weight, are not too concerned about putting on muscle, and who love a tough cardio workout. Depending on how hard you go, you can plan on burning between 600-800 calories per Insanity workout. Some who go “crazy” during the workouts will burn close to 1000 calories.
The Insanity workouts on average are around 40 minutes long. They are shorter than the P90X workouts but you will burn more calories with Insanity. Before my first Insanity workout I refused to believe that I would burn more calories with Insanity. I knew the workouts were shorter so it just didn’t make sense to me. It was about 10 minutes into my first workout when I became a believer. I couldn’t remember having worked so hard and sweat so much.
Insanity is created on the “Max Interval Training” technique. If you have no idea what that means don’t feel bad, I had no idea what it meant the first time I heard it either. Basically, it means that you work your butt off for 40 minutes with three or four 30 second water breaks placed in there. He (Shawn-T) will bring your heart rate up to around 160 bpm and hold it there for a bit. He will then give you a break to bring it back down to around 125 bpm. Do this 3-4 times and there is your workout.
The Insanity workout program will get you into great cardio shape. I wrestled in high school and during the season considered myself to be in top-notch condition. I could wrestle for 6 minutes straight without stopping. After completing the 60-day Insanity program I honestly felt that I was close to being back in “wrestling shape”.
Insanity is perfect for people who love a tough cardio workout. People that love to run and who are training for a road race, Insanity is perfect for you. Insanity will allow you to change up your mundane workout routine without your lungs and heart missing out on the needed training.
Depending upon your needs will determine what program to go with. If you are looking to improve both your cardiovascular health and increase your muscle mass than the P90X is for you. In the end the P90X with stretch bands and a pull-up bar will cost you around $190.00. If you are just looking to melt some fat off of your body and like short, intense workouts than Insanity is for you. Plan on spending $119.85 for the Insanity workout system.
The P90X / Insanity Challenge Day 12
Today’s workout was the P90X Chest/Back workout. Two new developments today: The first is that I did today’s workout without the video and it took me half the time. I went ahead and followed the workout sheets and it helped the workout go much quicker. I saved a lot of time between reps when Tony is usually showing us how strong he his or talking his face off. Unfortunately chest/back is one of the few workouts that has all of the exercises on the workout sheets.
The second development is that my push-up reps are increasing dramatically. Today’s workout has me doing normal, military, wide, diamond, decline, and dive-bomber push-ups 2x each. I ended up doing 175 push-ups in the 12 sets. Not too bad. The easiest push-ups are the normal ones of course and the toughest ones have got to be the dive-bomber push-ups. Whenever I do dive-bombers I think of Catherina Zeta Jones in this movie in which she played a burglar, opposite of Sean Connery, in which she is forced to contort herself through these lasers. I just can’t shake it. Oh well. To top off my workout I also did 20 minutes of an Insanity workout today. My wrestlers did it for 20 minutes so I decided to show them that a 33 year-old man can do it too.
Breakfast:
2 bowls of raisin bran with skim milk 500 Calories
Snack:
An apple- 180 Calories
1 slice of colby cheese- 200 Calories
Lunch:
Cinnamon Oatmeal- 300 Calories
Low-Fat Vanilla Yogurt with flak seeds- 260 Calories
Snack:
None
Dinner:
BBQ Chicken 250 Calories
Chicken Flavored Rice 240 Calories
Wheat Thins- 300 Calories
Post Workout Recovery Drink- 240 Calories
Total Caloric Intake: 2470
The P90X / Insanity Challenge Day 11
Today’s workout was the Insanity Max Cardio workout! This has go to be one of the toughest Insanity workouts yet! This one is about 10 minutes longer than the rest of the Insanity workouts and is much more intense. There are only two water breaks and one of them is after the stretching piece. This workout also had many new kinds of movements. The one that really made both my abs and chest burn was towards the end. I have no idea what Shawn T calls them put you get in a plank push-up position and hold it. Meanwhile you bring your right leg up to the side and touch your right elbow. Return your leg to the floor and then do the same with the other side. I think I did about 23 of these before my arms gave out. It hurt a ton but it was a good feeling to be challenged. Tomorrow I am back to the P90X and I believe it is the Chest and Back workout. See you tomorrow!
Breakfast:
2 bowls of raisin bran with skim milk: 500 Calories
Beachbody Vitamins
Snack: Beachbody Protein Bar: 240 Calories
Lunch: Chocolate Shakeology: 140 Calories
Ritz Snack Pack: 100 Calories
1 Red Apple: 150 Calories
Dinner: Grilled salmon and brown rice: 400 Calories
Post Workout: Beachbody Recovery Drink: 240 Calories
Total Calories Consumed: 1770
The P90X / Insanity Challenge Day 10
To say that this past week was busy would be an understatement. Besides the responsibilities that come with my regular job, the wrestling team that I coach started up last week. I also referee HS wrestling and I had two dual meets after my regular practice time. At one of the duals the school’s fire alarm went off in the middle of the meet extending the time of it. The meet began at 5:30 and I didn’t get home until 9:30 that night. It was a very long day. I ended up missing two workouts last week but still managed to lose more weight. At the beginning of this challenge I weighed in at 186.7 lbs. Yesterday I tipped the scales at 175.6 lbs. Surprising because I had a few beers the night before.
Today’s workout was the P90X legs and back.I finished up with the Ab Ripper which was not nice on my midsection. It had been quite some time since I finished an Ab Ripper workout and it felt like it in the end. After the workout I went for a short 1.5 mile run on my treadmill. I probably burned an extra 150 calories in the process.
I have been continuing to eat Beachbody’s protein bars for my snacks and have also been taking the Beachbody Vitamins which are designed to increase by body’s metabolism.
Tomorrow’s workout is an Insanity workout. It shouldn’t be a problem to finish this one because I have incorporated it into my wrestling team’s practices. Surprisingly enough most of the kids love it. They like the new moves, music, and the encouragement of Shaun T. There are some kids who hate it and most of them are overweight. It is quite hard for them and I have told them to only dowhat you can.
